Dispelling Some Myths About Immigration Reform

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  January 26th at 08:50 AM  | 

One of my favorite conservative bloggers is John Hawkins who also writes an article on Townhall. Recently, however, he ran an article about immigration reform that, I believe, contained somewhat disingenuous arguments against comprehensive immigration reform. And many of these arguments I have heard and read in other venues, including here at Redstate. Specifically, he argues that granting any form of “amnesty” would be counterproductive | Read More »

Demographic Reality

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  December 24th at 11:20 AM  | 

With the most recent election barely behind us, a little recognized piece of news data was released this week by the United States Census Bureau. Despite the fact that a national census is constitutionally mandated every ten years for apportionment purposes, the Census Bureau does not go into hibernation for nine years only to emerge when a year ends in a zero. Most recently, they | Read More »

Romney, Education and Hispanics

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  May 24th at 08:07 AM  | 

On Wednesday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the Latino Coalition of the Chamber of Commerce. Some liberal websites covered the speech with derision with comments like “in 26 minutes he didn’t once mention immigration.” This underscores their ignorance and their group identity politics and show this propensity in other areas. The alleged war on women is a perfect example. In that case, liberals and | Read More »

For Romney to Win: Part 2 (Immigration)

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  April 30th at 08:15 PM  | 

In the aforementioned Luntz article in the Washington Post, the author noted that a popular myth regarding the conservative voter is that they all support the deportation of illegal immigrants. However, it is exactly that- a myth. There is a fundamental difference, however, when it comes to the proposed solutions to the problem. Illegal immigration affects border states more than other states, but every state | Read More »

Roberts vs. Obama & Holder: Round 1

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  December 18th at 01:33 PM  | 

While we are concentrating on the GOP nomination battle and all that entails and the drama towards the big prize in 2012, the Supreme Court has taken on a trio of cases that are highly politically charged that may have more far-reaching effects than who wins in 2012. In the first match up, Justice Scalia has accepted and placed on the docket a case involving | Read More »

Weakening the Democratic Base, Part 9: Hispanics

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  May 19th at 08:51 AM  | 

Recently, Barack Obama gave a speech on immigration to an adoring audience in El Paso, Texas.  That speech was generally panned by those on the right, the left, the middle, the upside downs, the sideways, and most importantly the Hispanic community.  Instead of offering up a coherent Administration policy and strategy, he delivered a highly partisan speech dripping in sarcasm that attracted guffaws from the | Read More »